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Saturday, August 25, 2012

StatusNet powered by OpenShift

I have done a couple of proof of concept projects using StatusNet as a Twitter-like service in support of conference type applications. 2 weeks ago I had decided to work on deploying StatusNet to OpenShift as a quick and easy public facing server.

Then @JasonBrooks published his work with StatusNet at github, and it seemed like a good time to combine efforts. Through the power of Social Coding - we now have a quickstart for running StatusNet @Openshift.

Some things I learned in doing this that are worthing noting -

ACTION_HOOKS - Whatever you can imagine in a BASH script is possible for scripting setups. Different hooks apply for different phases of the Application Life Cycle. Most of StatusNet was written in the deploy, but